Games like Roguelands
If Roguelands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Magicite, Vagante and Risk of Rain (2013) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character progression feels meaningful, community mods extend playability and crafting depth rewards patience. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Roguelands is a multiplayer action RPG set in a procedurally generated galaxy, developed by Sean Young and published by SmashGames. Players take on the role of Galactic Cadets exploring hostile planets in search of loot and resources. The game emphasizes character-building through class specialization and gear-scaling, with crafting serving as a core mechanic that rewards player investment. Permadeath ensures each run carries stakes, while multiplayer co-op allows friends to tackle challenges together. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and nostalgic, highlighting the wide variety of weapons and classes alongside challenging boss encounters. Reviewers note that crafting depth and meaningful character progression keep players engaged, and community-created mods extend the experience beyond its initial content. The game offers medium-length sessions with a challenging difficulty curve.
About Roguelands: Embark on an epic journey in this hardcore Multiplayer RPG! As a Galactic Cadet, you and your Combat Squad of friends must brave hostile worlds in search of valuable loot and resources. Craft powerful gear, slay otherworldly creatures, and save the galaxy.
Players who liked Roguelands also play
Steam players who put hours into Roguelands also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Magicite
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Top pick for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Vagante
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Second-strongest match for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Roguelands.
Third-strongest match for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Black Future '88
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Roguelands.
Ranked #4 for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Roguelands.
Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
Never Split the Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Hero Siege
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Ranked #7 for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Roguelands.
Ranked #8 for Roguelands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Roguelands
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Barony
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Magicite
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
For The King
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
Vagante
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
Heroes of Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Reviewers of Roguelands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Roguelands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Roguelands.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Roguelands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Roguelands.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Sean Young
Other recommendable Steam games by Sean Young, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Kindergarten
WHY THIS
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
Littlewood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Roguelands.
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Magicite
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Kindergarten 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
Welcome to Kindergarten 2, which takes place on Tuesday! After the events of Monday, you'll find yourself in a new school with new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Kindergarten 3
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Roguelands.
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Wraithslayer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Roguelands.
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.
Monsterpatch
WHY THIS
Another title from Sean Young, the studio behind Roguelands. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roguelands.
Monsterpatch is a Cozy Monster-Collecting RPG with farming and town building elements. Catch magical MoNs, battle other wizards, harvest crops, and more! There are many treasures to collect, items to craft, and mysteries waiting to be discovered...
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Black Future '88
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Roguelands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Roguelands.
Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
Never Split the Party
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Roguelands.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelands.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Frequently asked about Roguelands
- How much does Roguelands cost?
- Roguelands is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Roguelands have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Roguelands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Roguelands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Roguelands are Magicite, Vagante, Risk of Rain (2013).
- Who developed Roguelands?
- Roguelands was developed by Sean Young and published by SmashGames.
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